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Mike Brandl is a fellow LEGO MCP and all-round outstanding LEGO builder. His latest project certainly pushes the envelope when it comes to putting the NXT in a harsh environment. This time he has built a LEGO submarine that can navigate successfully underwater. The NXT is housed in a plastic sealed bag, with glue around(…)

This project is a LEGO version of the Google Street View Car. I’ve been working on this project for the guts of six months now, and you can probably see why! It all started when was playing with the dGPS sensor from Dexter Industries, and realised that if I combined this sensor, with a robust chassis and a camera(…)

I made some modifications to my LEGO Street Sweeper to bring to the LEGO World Zwolle event. The previous version lacked a finished body, so I added a rear body enclosure and a cab frame to make it more realistic. [nggallery id=10]

Grab-n-Go is an autonomous LEGO tracked vehicle with a grabber arm on the front. It is designed to locate a ball using the Mindsensor NXTcam and pick the ball up using the grabber. The grabber is a modified version of the Clamp-n-Lift design that grabs an item and lifts it in a single motion, thus(…)

Grab-n-Go is a NXTCAM controlled vision robot that can locate and pick up a red ball. It combines the drive motor assembly from the 8275 Bulldozer, the track supports from the 8294 Excavator, and Paul Tingey’s Clamp-n-Lift.

Queboid is a cube-shaped LEGO robot that uses a square tread design. It is powered by two medium Power Functions motors and controlled by a NXT sending commands to the motors through an NRLink. [nggallery id=2]

I was inspired by a number of cube–shaped robots on NXTlog to build a similar vehicle. Presenting Que-boid!Que-boid can drive on four faces thanks to the track design. The design for the track supports is taken from the LEGO 8294 Excavator; I used four excavator track supports attached by beams to build the model structure. I am very pleased with how(…)